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Jimmy Carter: I will nominate Thomas J. Watson, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United…

On the recordJuly 19, 1979
I will nominate Thomas J. Watson, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union Nomination of Thomas J. Watson

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